DA ESCUTA À ESCRITA: o fazer policial na construção de sujeitos e crimes em inquéritos policiais de violência contra a mulher

Through the analysis of police inquiries of domestic violence and through the participant observation of a Women's Defense Police Station, I sought to investigate how the discourse and moralities that are present in the police station dispute the categories of victim, perpetrator and violence, informing the framing of facts in legal narratives and leaving marks in the criminal process.A través del análisis de investigaciones policiales de violencia doméstica y de la observación participante de una Comisaría de Defensa de la Mujer, se buscó investigar cómo discursividades y moralidades en el espacio policial disputan las categorías de víctima, autor y violencia, informando el encuadramiento de hechos en narrativas legales y dejando marcas en el proceso penal.Através da análise de inquéritos policiais de violência doméstica e da observação participante de uma Delegacia de Defesa da Mulher, buscou-se investigar como as discursividades e moralidades presentes no espaço policial disputam as categorias de vítima, autor e violência, informando o enquadramento de fatos e narrativas legais e deixando marcas no processo penal

Incarcerating at any cost: drug trafficking and imprisonment in Brazilian court reasoning

Brazil has the third largest prison population worldwide—over 700,000 people. At least 28% of them are in prison for drug trafficking. Given that situation, this paper explores the conflicts among the law; the Supremo Tribunal Federal, or Brazilian Federal Supreme Court (STF) and lower court precedents. Based on a qualitative and quantitative study of Tribunal de Justiça de São Paulo, or São Paulo State Supreme Court (TJSP) and Superior Tribunal de Justiça, or Brazilian Superior Court of Justice (STJ) decisions between 2017 and 2018, this paper focuses on the arguments put forward by those courts to prevent the imposition of non-custodial sanctions on people convicted of drug trafficking even though they may be first-time offenders with no criminal record. Our research shows the main arguments used are related to the amount, type and variety of seized drugs; the convict’s criminal history; the person’s employment status at the time of arrest and the insufficiency of non-custodial sentences in cases of drug trafficking. Our conclusion is that the reasoning behind convictions for drug trafficking favors imprisonment even in situations in which the law and the STF precedents would allow non-custodial sentences

Unravelling the Neural Basis of Spatial Delusions After Stroke

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